Carbon fertilizer, a carnival of liars

Carbon fertilizer, a carnival of liars

Recently, there is a product advertised as "carbon fertilizer", which is advertised and sold in many places. Many farmers think it is a high-tech new product and buy it one after another. So, is this fertilizer really as good as the merchants say?

Last year, Zeng Xiancheng, honorary president of the China Humic Acid Industry Association, invited Gao Xiangzhao, chief expert of the Agricultural Technology Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, to give a special report on "Humic Acid Containing Carbon Is Not "Carbon Fertilizer"" at the "Third National Soil and Fertilizer Harmonization Conference". They also fully exchanged views on the topic "Carbon is not fertilizer".

Prior to this, when Zeng Xiancheng attended the "National Farmland Soil Heavy Metal Pollution Prevention and Remediation Exchange Conference", he had already exchanged the topic of "carbon is not fertilizer" with researcher Gao Xiangzhao. However, because humic acid is composed of carbon elements, many companies call it "carbon fertilizer", which deviates from the correct direction of promoting humic acid fertilizers, and brings confusion to many producers and consumers to correctly understand humic acid fertilizers. In this regard, the concept must be clarified to set the record straight.